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Boss sold counterfeit plane parts that grounded hundreds of flights worldwide

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Jose Zamora YralaThe founder of a company sold bogus parts to leading airlines across the globe in a fraud 'where many lives were potentially put at risk', a court heard.Venezuelan Jose Zamora Yrala, 37, who ran UK-based AOG Technics, is accused of defrauding customers including leading airlines, maintenance firms, and parts suppliers.The scam allegedly involved falsified documentation relating to the origin, status or condition of aircraft parts from 2019 to 2023.Yrala, a former techno DJ, appeared at Southwark Crown Court wearing a pinstriped suit and red tie charged with fraudulent trading.Faras Baloch, prosecuting, said: 'The European authorities sent a warning around to airlines, which meant airlines were able to prevent airlines from taking off if suspect parts were affecting that part of the supply.'Judge Justin Cole said: 'This is an alleged fraud where many lives were potentially put at risk.'. Central News
Jose Zamora Yrala sold bogus plane parts to airlines across the globe (Picture: Central News/Web Collect/Soundcl)

A company director has pleaded guilty to supplying counterfeit plane parts, which went on to be used by airlines around the world.

Hundreds of flights had to be grounded due to Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala’s fraud while operating UK company AOG Technics came to light.

The fake plane parts he sold were for the engine used in the world’s most widely used passenger planes, the CFM56 engine, which powers Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 aircraft.

A safety alert was issued to customers who may have bought or installed the fake components, with the UK’s Serious Fraud Office investigating alongside authorities in Portugal.

Appearing at Southwark Crown Court today, former techno DJ Zamora Yrala, 37, admitted defrauding customers between January 2019 and December 2023, as well as falsifying documentation that related to the origin, status or condition of aircraft parts.

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Jose Zamora Yrala The founder of a company sold bogus parts to leading airlines across the globe in a fraud 'where many lives were potentially put at risk', a court heard. Venezuelan Jose Zamora Yrala, 37, who ran UK-based AOG Technics, is accused of defrauding customers including leading airlines, maintenance firms, and parts suppliers. The scam allegedly involved falsified documentation relating to the origin, status or condition of aircraft parts from 2019 to 2023. Yrala, a former techno DJ, appeared at Southwark Crown Court wearing a pinstriped suit and red tie charged with fraudulent trading. Faras Baloch, prosecuting, said: 'The European authorities sent a warning around to airlines, which meant airlines were able to prevent airlines from taking off if suspect parts were affecting that part of the supply.' Judge Justin Cole said: 'This is an alleged fraud where many lives were potentially put at risk.'. Central News
Jose Zamora Yrala pleaded guilty to fraud today (Picture: Central News/Facebook)

As well as airlines themselves, his company’s client list included maintenance providers and parts suppliers.

The issue came to light in 2023, when the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority, the United States’ Federal Aviation Administration, and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency all issued safety alerts.

Portuguese authorities are still investigating.

Emma Luxton, director of operations at the SFO, said: ‘This significant and audacious fraud threatened trust in the aviation industry and risked public safety on a global scale.

‘I’m extremely proud that we’ve acted swiftly to secure this conviction and wish to thank law enforcement partners in Portugal for their speedy and critical assistance.’

Zamora Yrala, 37, of Virginia Water in Surrey, was granted conditional bail at Southwark Crown Court to appear for his sentencing hearing at the same court on February 23.

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Wife of Missing Football Coach Makes Telling Move on Social Media

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Virginia high school football coach Travis Turner remains missing over a week after he was last seen. The 46-year-old Turner is considered a fugitive after being charged with five counts of child pornography and five counts of using a computer to solicit a minor. Amid the ongoing investigation, ...

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SSC GD Constable Recruitment 2026

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Death row inmate released on bail after 27 years with conviction overturned

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This 2017 photo provided by Mwalimu Center for Justice shows Jimmie Duncan, second from left, with family and friends at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. (Mwalimu Center for Justice via AP)
A man who has spent 27 years on death row has been released on bail after his murder conviction was overturned. Jimmie Duncan, 57, from Louisiana, USA, endured almost three decades on death row for the ‘murder’ of his then girlfriend’s toddler, twenty-three-month-old Haley Oliveaux, who died in December 1993. (Picture: AP)
This photo provided by Matilde Carbia shows Jimmie Duncan, center right, hugging a relative after being released on bail, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025, at Ouachita Correctional Center in Monroe, La., after a district judge tossed his murder conviction earlier this year. (Matilde Carbia via AP)
Duncan’s attorney, Chris Fabricant, said in a statement that his client’s release marked a ‘significant step forward in his long fight for justice.’ He described Duncan’s incarceration as a ‘gross miscarriage of justice,’ and said that if he had eventually been executed, it would have been a ‘moral outrage’. Duncan’s conviction was overturned earlier this year and he was released on bail last week (November 26), according to Associated Press (AP).(Picture: AP)
Fabricant added that Duncan was ‘wrongly convicted based on the fraudulent forensics, woefully ineffective defense counsel, and the state’s patent misconduct.’ Duncan was convicted of first-degree murder in 1998 and was incarcerated at Angola State Prison in Louisiana. He was accused of drowning Oliveaux, with his bite marks also allegedly being found on the toddler’s body. (Picture: MATTHEW HINTON/AFP via Getty Images)
Jimmie ?Chris? Duncan was released on bail today November 26, 2025 after 27 years on death row at Louisiana?s Angola prison following a wrongful conviction for the death of Haley Oliveaux, the daughter of his then girlfriend Allison Layton Statham in 1993. Link - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574120486402
Innocence Project say the bite marks were the result of forensic fraud. They say experts used a mould of Duncan’s teeth to create the marks on the body which were then ‘matched’ to Duncan at the trial. It argues the jury never saw the videotape showing these marks being created, which it calls ‘stark evidence of forensic fraud’. (Picture: The Murder That Never Happened via Facebook)
Helicopters in a flotilla transporting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem land near "Camp 57," a facility to house immigration detainees at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., prior to her touring the facility with Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Innocence Project, which ‘work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone,’ said in a press release that 4th Judicial District Judge Alvin Sharp’s latest ruling found Duncan ‘factually innocent’ of the murder. Sharp said that the evidence that put Duncan in jail was the result of ‘improper’ evidence and two new experts stated that Oliveaux’s death was a result of ‘accidental drowning’, according to the ruling. AP reported that Duncan was released on $150,000 bond. Sharp wrote in an order granting Duncan bail that ‘the presumption is not great that he is guilty.’ (Picture: AP)
Haley Oliveaux ?s paternal aunt, Jennifer Berry, had awaited word of Jimmie Duncan?s execution in the child?s death but, since digging into the case, now believes he should go free. | Headline - Jimmie ?Chris? Duncan was released on bail today November 26, 2025 after 27 years on death row at Louisiana?s Angola prison following a wrongful conviction for the death of Haley Oliveaux, the daughter of his then girlfriend Allison Layton Statham in 1993. Link - https://veritenews.org/2025/07/03/jimmie-duncan-michael-west-netflix/
Innocence Project, whose attorneys have represented Duncan, said in a breaking article on their site: ‘The State has appealed the decision finding Mr. Duncan factually innocent and vacating his conviction to the Louisiana Supreme Court, which will hear Mr. Duncan’s case in early 2026.’ Scott Greene, who is on Duncan’s long-time pro bono team at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, said that their client is ‘one step closer to the life stripped away from him so many years ago.’ Greene stressed that he and his team are ‘committed to reaching the moment when he walks as a fully free, innocent man.’ (Picture: veritenews.org/The Murder That Never Happened)
An account according to the Innocence Project says that on December 18, 1993, Duncan was bathing his step-daughter. When he briefly stepped away from the tub, he returned to find her unconscious. After performing CPR and calling neighbours for help, paramedics arrived to try and save Oliveaux. Sadly, doctors were unable to revive her, and she was pronounced dead at the hospital. (Picture: MATTHEW HINTON/AFP via Getty Images)
Allison Layton Statham, Duncan’s former partner and mother of the deceased, told the judge at the bail hearing in Ouachita Parish that she was convinced of his innocence. She said she believed that her daughter had accidentally drowned. According to court reports, Statham reportedly said Oliveaux ‘wasn’t killed.’ Rather, she ‘died because she was sick.’ (Picture: Giles Clarke/Getty Images)
Pictured - Jimmie Duncan is seen here in an un-dated pre-conviction photo with with his half sister, Nichole Duncan. Jimmie Duncan was convicted of raping and killing Haley Oliveaux. A judge found he was "factually innocent" of the crime. https://veritenews.org/2025/07/03/jimmie-duncan-michael-west-netflix/
Oliveaux had a history of seizures and in the weeks before her death she suffered from a ‘series of seizures and head injuries,’ Innocence Project states. The last injury reportedly stemmed from a fall that led to multiple skull fractures, with Oliveaux being required to stay in the hospital for a week. The project states that these injuries increased her risk of subsequent seizures, which could be triggered by warm baths. However, this information was not presented at Duncan’s trial. (Picture: veritenews.org/The Murder That Never Happened)

What have Duncan’s family said about the situation?

Statham added that her life, her family’s life, and Duncan’s life have been ‘destroyed by the lie.’ Referring to the prosecutors and forensic experts, AP report she told the court: ‘The horror story that they put out and desecrated my baby’s memory makes me infuriated. I was not informed of anything that would have exonerated Mr. Duncan at all. Had I been then, things would have turned out a lot different for Mr. Duncan and all of our families.’ Prosecutors are seeking to reinstate Duncan’s conviction. (Picture: MATTHEW HINTON/AFP via Getty Images)

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